The Nullarbor

We took three days to cross the Nullarbor to Streaky Bay. 

Null = no
Arbor = trees

We drove through Balladonia, where we stayed Christmas Eve 23 years ago with the kids.

It hasn't changed at all in that time.

It was put on the map so to speak when part of Skylab fell nearby. They have a museum with a part of it, and also information about the RedEx Reliability Trials (Redex Bash)Bash that used to travel through here.

The first night we free camped near Caiguna Roadhouse.

A nice spot to camp, though John was a little slow in closing the drawers on the ute. A mouse managed to chomp its way through $20 worth of food overnight. Grrr.

We packed up and headed to the links!

35,000 km we carried golf clubs so we could play a hole on the world's longest golf course!
We played the hole at Caiguna, a par 4.

After golf, we continued east towards the border

The obligatory photo crossing a border.

The ruins of the Eucla Telegraph station

We stayed at one of the cliffs overlooking the Bight. Beautiful. A cool breeze blowing from the south, so not worried about being blown over the edge. 

Having said that, there were a few dickheads who were way too close to the edge trying to capture that perfect shot. We couldn't look. 

Sunset

Sunrise

Windy!

This place is close to where there's an unofficial 45 minute time zone that services the 200 people who live in the 200km stretch. However, the phones really struggled with knowing where we were. Sometimes they showed Perth time, sometimes Adelaide, sometimes Central Australian Western time!

Day three of the Nullarbor was a scorcher. Heading into a headwind on undulating, rolling hills in 44 degrees moves the needle on the car when towing.

90kmph is about the sweet spot.

We arrived in Streaky Bay at about 5pm.

3 days crossing the Nullarbor - about 1700 km. These are much longer days than we typically do, so will be good to slow down a bit for a few days.